Case study · Innovation Unit and Department for Education

Next Practice in school leadership

Client
Innovation Unit and Department for Education
Sector
Education
Format
Conferences and events
People
110
Duration
2 days
Led by
Sean Blair

The brief and what we did

School leaders identified the challenges driving change, then worked in Open Space on ideas for field trials of new models of leadership.

Results

  • 21 detailed field-trial ideas
  • Five school consortia selected for support
  • Three further rounds of Next Practice over two years

How we work

Every assignment starts with a conversation about what needs to happen because of the session. We agree the outcome, turn it into clear objectives, then design the process backwards from there, using the ProMeet method and whichever tools serve the outcome. Read more about conference facilitation.

Ideas behind this work

Innovation Unit and Department for Education: Next Practice in school leadership
This system provided the best structure for our meetings that I have ever seen.
Mike Gibbons, Innovation Unit

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